Rail-securing appliance.



PATENTED 18, 1908.

A, '0. 3mm. I ma sEcURmG APPLIANCE.

APPLICATION FILED OOT.14,1907.

1' NVENTOR H, OF DOBBS FERRY, NEV YORK.

.ALFBEB G. Slll'l.

RAZL-SEOURENG APPLIANQE.

assess To all 1.9 may concern: it known first l, mini) (.1. SMITH, a I

rinseor the United Notes, residing st Boobs Perry, in she county oi VJlEStOllESlLCl sncl Ste/0e or I ew York, have invented cor-- rein new and useful Improvements in Reil- Securing Applis es; and i do hereby declare the following to be a "lull, clear, and exact description of invention, such will enable others skilled in the m to which it zippertains Lo 1 and use same.

if 'ition relates to new and useful improvenwnts in rail ing devices and more psrriculerly no thslrcloss adapted to be user for scour silwziy rails, or the like, in position on th cross ties, whereby said rails will he prevenied from spreading.

A further olnecc is to provide means for a. caning the appliances to the cross tics and still further object is to provide means for olding the appliances against slipping on me fines.

Qilier ohjecis and advantages will be here ineiler referred end more particularly point d out in the claims.

annals a. port. this application, r igure 1 is a. lop plan iew of s section of railway track,

hing my im- 2 is sectional View as end, Fig. 3 is sperw of one or the securing devices removed from engagement with the roll. I

Referring to we drawings in which similar reference numerals designate corresponding.

ilir'oughoua the several views, 1 indicrises rolls. such es are commonly used in construe" rsilwe" or sheen-cs1" trsclrs,

u l :n of flange or io supporring been 2 and the rails ore supporlted by the usual or any preferred form of cross lie 3;

It has been fou ,d by experience that on sharp curves the 9 will cut the heads is lrom the split or securing the rails to the ties. e 5 g lo spread and can W ,4 c t is my cl) je-clto provide secnrin whence which will pos vely ho d i heni from. spre ln kills accompanying drawings which are ispecification of Letters Petent.

I l l atented Aug. 18, 1908.

19m. FJ-erlal no. 397,391.

respectively, being at an angle to the longitudinal plane of the bar 4, so that in seating the rails in the channels, the bars 4 are placed at such an angle to the longitudinal plane of the rails as to bring the faces 8 and 90f the lugs 5 and '6 arallel with the longitudinal edges of the llenges 2 and sfter the rail is seated in the channel, the bars are swung all right sngles to the longitudinal-plane of the rails and parallel with the ties 3, said barsbeing then secured to the ties by introducing the usual or any preferred form of s ike 10 through openings 11 in the ends of t 6 bar. It is to be observed that the openings 11 are arranged on downward converging plenes so that the spikes ll) passing 'therethrough will form on effective joint. It is also to be observed that the locks!) and 6 are positioned edjscent one end of the bar 4. By this orrengement it has been found that the device nerforms its function'with greater facility, it lieing understood that the unobstructed end port-ions of the bars extend inwerdly of the track-way when applied.

The 8 end 9 of the lugs 5 and 6 are provided with recesses 12 and 13, respectively, which extend substantially one-holf the Width of the bars and form lips 14 and 15, respectively on the lugs 5 and 6, which lips are adapted to extend over and engage the upperfeces of the flanges 2, when the bars are moved at right angles to the rails 1, said lips firmly holding the rails and preventing lateral movement thereof and in View of vthe feel; that the faces 8 and 9 are won angle to the longisudinol plane of the bars, the lips staggered with relation to each other.

The meior nortion of the-strain on the spikes 10 is relieved by providing the lower face of the cars l with a pluralityof projections or teetlrlfi which are adapted to enter llie upper surfs :e of the ties when the bars are secured in position thereon, said projections preventing longitudinal movemeno of th losrs and, thereby, relieving the strain from ilie I?) will thus lix') seen lhas l have provided. 22 very cheep economical form of securing device and one label may be readily and g1 secured in osihion on the trscl'a-wey rill further be seen thotwnen the alps are properly secured to tire rsi s,

' l be held against snresding or the spikes employed for holding iii fng sno.

app iance, iJllBlBOD.

relieved from any undue sirens.

ill-5 j ceases What I claim is: 1 member, said member having an opening A railway rail fastening device of the charadjacent each end and having its under sur acter described, consistingof a member havface serrated said openings being arranged ing spaced lugs adjacent one end thereof, on downwardly converging planes. 1.5

i send lugs having their opposed faces arranged-l In testimony whereof l have signed iny on an incline transversely of the member and l name to this specification in the presence of parallel one wlth the other, the broad ends of two suhscnhlng witnesses.

the opposed faces of the lugs havin their ALFRED (l. SMllll'. under surfaces recessed, the 0 )pose walls Witnesses: v of the recesses being parallel an arranged at Sonon (I. KEMON,

approximately right angles to the sides of the J. EDWIN BUnorn 

